United States v. Floyd’s Empirical Analysis
1 F.3d 867 · 1993
Citation profile
34 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably United States v. De la Fuente (1993), United States v. Ajugwo (1996)
34 federal appellate ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3231 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Lord Electric Co. v. United States · Luster v. Cushman · Costello v. United States · Terrell v. United States · United States v. Arnett
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A plea agreement is contractual in nature and is subject to contract law standards.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The district court's interpretation of a plea agreement is a finding of fact and is reviewed for clear error but its application of the legal principles is a question of law reviewed de novo.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] plea agreement ... must be accepted by the court before it is binding”); United States v. Fagan, 996 F.2d 1009 , 1013 (9th Cir.1993) (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.